þearfend-líc

Old English Dictionary Entry

þearfend-líc

Old English Dictionary Entry

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1 þearfend-líc

adj. Poor, (a) of persons, indigent, destitute :-- Monnes bearn (Guthlac in his hermitage) swá þearfendlíc, Exon. Th. 128, 11; Gú. 402. (b) of things, scanty, insufficient :-- Ðæt ðú ne forgite míne þearfendlícan gegirlan (cf. se fiscere tóslát his wǽfels on twá and sealde Apollonige ðone healfan dǽl, 11, 27), Ap. Th. 12, 8. þearfend-lic

Runic Inscription

ᚦᛠᚱᚠᛖᚾᛞ-ᛚᛁᚳ

Possible runic inscription in Anglo-Saxon futhorc

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